【单选题】
In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Rend the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.
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But as the city’s population and its prominence as a global business capital continue to grow, it sometimes seems ready to burst at the seams. In response, developers are turning to a type of building that used to be deeply unfashionable here, even as it flourished in other capitals of commerce: the skyscraper.
In recent years, a cluster of sizable office towers have sprouted on the periphery of London, in its redevelopedDocklands atCanary Wharf.But skyscrapers now are pushing into the heart of theCity, London’s central financial district, and surrounding areas along the Thames.
The mayor, Ken Livingstone, champions tall buildings as part of his controversial plans to remake central London as a denser, more urban sort of place, with greater reliance on public transport. First he angered some drivers by charging them a toll to enter the city center on workdays, now he finds himself opposed by preservation groups, includingEnglish Heritage, that want to keep London’s character as a low-rise city.
For now, the mayor seems to be getting his way. One prominent tower, a 40-story building designed by Norman Foster for the Swiss Re insurance company was completed this year.A、handful of others have received planning permission and at least a dozen mere have been proposeD、
By far the most prominent of these buildings—and one that finally looks like it will go ahead after a drawn-out approval process—is the LondonBridge Tower, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. The developer Irvine Sellar won government approval for the building late last year and says he is completing the financing and hopes to start work by early 2005.
The 306-meter, or 1,016-foot, tower would be by far the tallest building inBritain, in all ofEurope, in fact, surpassing the 264-meter Triumph Palace in Moscow, a residential building that was finished late last year.
To be sure, even the LondonBridge Tower would be modest by the standards ofAmerican orAsian skyscrapers, or some of the behemoths on the drawing hoards for places likeDubai and Shanghai. The tallest building in the world at the moment is the 509-meter Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, according to theCouncil on TallBuildings and Urban Habitat.But it will surely be surpassed soon amid a boom in construction that persists.
In a city that has been reluctant to reach for the sky, perhaps it is appropriate that Piano is the architect for what probably will be London’s tallest building. He is ambivalent about skyscrapers, too, and has designed only a handful alongside such projects as the PompidouCenter in Paris, with Richard Rogers, and parts of the reconstructed Potsdamer Platz inBerlin.
English Heritage has been far less enthusiastic, arguing that the building would obstruct views of a high-rise from a much earlier era,Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’sCathedral. To overcome opposition, the building was designed with a mixed-use function. Much of the bottom half of the building will house offices, but above that there will be a "public piazza" with restaurants, exhibition spaces and other entertainment areas. Further above, the loftier, narrowe
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[定位] 根据题干关键词mayor’s support for tall buildings定位到第4、5段。 [解析] 通过定位找出相关信息点后，可知选项B、C、D分别与第5段第2、3句的文字描述相对应，而选项A出现在第4段第2句，并不是市长支持建筑高楼的例证，而是他为了使伦敦更依赖于城市的公共交通所采取的措施，因此选A。 [点睛] 文章第4段提到伦敦市长把高楼列入城市建设的计划遭到了反对，接着第5段谈到“For now，the mayor seems to be getting his way(而现在，市长似乎要坚持己见)”，随后例举了三各例子，即B、C、D选项所述内容，来证明市长对高楼的支持，由此可筛选出答案。本题也可用排除法。B、C、D的内容在原文并列出现，不可能同时为答案，可迅速排除这三项。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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